Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-08-27

| old warriors say that he was the most
: o~owanlly white man they had ever
D met He may have lacked courage,
: but ! always believed his conduct to
p have been the result of his shattered
mental and physical condition.
I After the boys had switched him for
ten minutes they were called off, and a
: couple Of warriors advanced with their
muz1le-loading rifles and began to fire
charges Of powder into the poor fell
lows flesh. Does it hurt? Well, sir.
hel, can't be any worse. I've had a
dozen charges fired into me, and never
f6., any pain to equal it. I'll take two
bullets in preference TO one charge Of
powder every time. The first charge
set him to dancing and screaming. and
II the third or fourth he Kicked one of
the warriors over, and became 50 saw
age that they had 10 fully bind him to
the stake. They fired thirty-four
charges in all, and by the time they
had finished YOU could not have told
that Scwcll was q white man. His a.
any was something awful. and he
wgithed about with such strength that
the stake had twice to be driven deeper.
His shgicks and screams, rs | after
wand knew, were heard a distance of
more than TWO miles. and yet this was
only the beginning Of what they had in
store for him.
The next move was 10 apply the
burning sticks. Some green sticks had
been pm, upon the fire on purpose, and
three or foHr warriors applied the burn
ING ends to various portions Of the en-
-inccr'> body The pain fairly drove
him crazy. and in a short time he
tainted. Water was brought from the
stream and dashed over him, and dur
in-thj>i interval many warriors crowded
around me TO see how l was bearing
mp.
Dogs Do You think You can make
The Long Death cry like that?' !
shouted at them. Here, pull up my
trousers and see where the |cowardly
SIOUX shot powder INTO my legs. full
al my boots and find where the Chcy-
enn"> applied the fire sticks. Did
weep Hse a woman3 Go ask them.
And when you ask that, inquire who
st.-al the Black Eagle, Rel Horse, Big
u lHtain, Great bEtEIlo and Black
Feather. They Will tell YOU, The Long
DEATH
Bat for the presence Of four or five
chiefs, should have been done for on
the spot, 50 excited were the Young
men. By this time Sc"ell had remiued
his senses, and was >73biHg and wall
iHg again, and they won, back to their
sport, 4 warrior approached III witA
q sharp knife and sIa>h"d him in fifty
different places, each cut being deep
enough to be painful, but none of them
very serious. The gl,h Of blood soon
turned the man into q horrible looking
object, and several times he would
have tainted had they not had water at
hand to throw over him. He had
screamed 50 loud and long that his
voice Wa now entirely gone, and the
only sound he could utter was a groan.
lie had long seemed mcoHcious Of my
presence, and | was glad Of this. | do
not think he was in his full senses after
the burning. After the warrior had cut
and ,Ia,hcd with his knife he fell back
to give place to another. Ihi, second
u meant to do finer work. H.
meant, rs a first move, to cut the VIC
tim, tongue out, but as he reached for
it with his left hand Sewcll snapped at
him like a dog, got the black hand
firmly between his jaws, and then there
wa. a grand uproar. Eyrry body en-
ioycd the fix the Indian wa. in. and
whenever he m~otioued as if he meant
10 use his knife they shouted 20 him To
rive the victim fair play. ScWeli held
to him for fully five minute. lacerltigp
the hand like a bull dog: and tl.cn ,
three or four warriors seized him and
made him let 20. The bitten warrior
u. 80 = - 800.